Greg Cromie Photography

October 29, 2018

My First Model Shoot – With Fujifilm X Series, The ORP and another bloke.

I have photographed a lot of interesting things during my photographic journey and have experimented as much as I can with a broad range of genres. Street photography, portraits and pets, food and product photography, landscape and travel and even parties and events. Yes, I am just that good! Well, I said I have experimented…

October 22, 2018

Fujifilm XF10 – An X Series camera with a strong heritage but a doubtful direction.

For those of you that have known me during my photographic journey, and especially my peers in the Fujifilm community, you will know that I have a secret little love affair with one of Fujifilm’s smallest and most underrated cameras of all time. The Fujifilm X70! It was originally announced in January 2016 and launched late…

October 21, 2018

A weekend at Werribee Mansion – With Fujifilm X Series

This weekend we travelled to a western suburbs area of Melbourne called Werribee. When I say we, I mean my kids and me, my sisters and parents and my mother-in-law (Isobel’s mum) as it was her 80th Birthday! We were all getting together to spend a night at the Werribee Mansion Hotel and Spa to…

October 15, 2018

A little ‘boaring’ Shinto Shrine – Kyoto 2016

Of course, I kid. I have never come across a boring Shinto Shrine in Japan nor have I ever made a spelling mistake! But whilst in Kyoto in 2016 I did come across a Shrine was that dedicated to the boar. Yes of all things. Another reason why we love the Japanese. So why am…

October 8, 2018

Photographing mostly ourselves – with the ORP and the Fujifilm X Series….and a Sony too!

As you will have noticed in some of my past blogs, I catch up with a good mate of mine now and then for various photographic endeavours. He calls himself the Overrated Photographer. I prefer to call him many other nasty things but for now, I will refer to him as the ORP. You can…

October 6, 2018

How I deal with my withdrawals from Japan – I booked a new trip to Tokyo!

Well, well, well. I have gone and done it again! If you have been following my blogs for some time you will no doubt see that I have a fixation with Japan and Japanese culture. And of course, a big part of this has been my ability to travel there in 2015, 2016 and again…

October 2, 2018

My photography workflow with Fujifilm X Series – Part III – Post Processing.

This is the third and final part in my more instructional or guiding blogs series about how I manage my workflow. In today’s blog, we finally take a look at how I manage my workflow once I am home from the shoot and am ready to start editing. It goes a little something like this.…

September 27, 2018

Hawker 88 Night Market with Fujifilm X Series

Ever since I have been writing this blog I have talked about my love for two key locations. Melbourne and Japan. Now as many of you will know I live in Melbourne and travel to Japan whenever I can. And one of the key things that I have written about my hometown of Melbourne, is…

September 23, 2018

Fuji X Aus – A recap of my recent blogs.

I have mentioned a couple of times throughout my musings here that I am a member of a Fujifilm community here in Australia. The group is a Facebook group and I have been a part of it for a couple of years now. In recent months they have built a WordPress website where people can…

September 19, 2018

Day Tripping – In country Victoria with Fujifilm X Series

In my younger years I spent a lot of time in the country especially as a result of my being involved in Cubs, Scouts, etc. My older brother was also involved as he was a leader of our group and of course my father was also heavily involved as he was the groups quartermaster. So…